FMS 2026: Cerabyte Unveils “The Missing Tier” to Address AI’s Long-Term Data Storage Challenge

Cerabyte, Inc., a pioneer of ceramic-based storage solutions, announced it will present its vision for The Missing Tier at FMS: The Future of Memory and Storage 2026, August 4-6, Santa Clara Convention Center & Hyatt Regency, Santa Clara, California. As organizations keep more data for longer, traditional storage technologies are struggling to keep up, driving up power use and making long-term storage more expensive to manage. Cerabyte’s Missing Tier bridges the gap with rapid data access, immutability and ultra-low energy consumption. It is designed to redefine how hyperscale environments preserve data for generations.

When: Wednesday, August 5, at 4:05pm
Topic: The Missing Tier
Presented by: Steffen Hellmold, Cerabyte President
Location: Ballroom F

“Organizations are creating data faster than existing storage architectures can economically and sustainably preserve it,” said Christian Pflaum, CEO, Cerabyte. “The lifecycle of the vast majority of data stored in secondary storage far exceeds the lifetime of the media. Cerabyte based storage delivers that missing tier and establishes a new standard for accessible, permanent data preservation.”

Cerabyte’s ultra-durable data storage technology combines massive write-and-read parallelization with fast, random data access. Hundreds of ceramic-on-glass sheets can be stored in cartridges, while optical writing and reading systems process millions of bits in parallel to support gigabyte-per-second throughput and retrieval within seconds.

FMS brings together technology leaders, engineers, architects and enterprise users from across the memory and storage ecosystem. The 2026 event marks the conference’s 20th anniversary and will feature more than 250 speakers and over 20 content streams focused on innovations shaping the future of memory and storage.